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Symptom & Impact
Replication remains suspended after reboot, leaving DR target stale.
Environment & Reproduction
Appears after unplanned destination restart during heavy write activity.
Get-SRPartnership
Get-SRGroupRoot Cause Analysis
Replication service startup ordering or stale metadata prevents automatic resume handshake.
Quick Triage
Check SR service state and partnership status on both ends.
Get-Service storagereservice
Get-SRPartnership | fl *Step-by-Step Diagnosis
Review Storage Replica admin log for resume and connection negotiation failures.
Get-WinEvent -LogName Microsoft-Windows-StorageReplica/Admin -MaxEvents 200
Solution – Primary Fix
Resume partnership explicitly and verify data/log volume health.
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Resume-SRPartnership -SourceComputerName -DestinationComputerName -Name 
Solution – Alternative Approaches
Remove and recreate partnership metadata if resume command consistently fails.
Verification & Acceptance Criteria
Replication status changes to ContinuouslyReplicating and queue declines.
Rollback Plan
Keep source authoritative and suspend planned failover operations until partnership is re-established.
Prevention & Hardening
Sequence service startup dependencies and add post-reboot SR health checks.
Related Errors & Cross-Refs
May align with destination log corruption alerts and transient SMB connectivity drops.
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References & Further Reading
Microsoft Learn: managing and resuming Storage Replica partnerships.
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